Fact Checking

This just in from the Alberta Fact Check Team:

Today, the critics of Alberta’s independence movement aren’t just wrong — they’re caught on the record.

First, Thomas Lukaszuk is at it again. Speaking to Lakeland Today, the anti-referendum activist insisted his Forever Canadian group never wanted a referendum — only a vote in the legislature. The trouble is there’s a document, signed by Lukaszuk and filed with Elections Alberta, that states he was petitioning to put a question to a referendum. His own signature contradicts him.

Next, former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien weighed in at Louise Arbour’s governor general swearing-in, telling CTV reporters that Alberta’s October vote isn’t a real referendum because it hasn’t been approved by Parliament. What Chrétien forgot is that Alberta’s Question 10 — on the October 19 ballot — is a legally organized provincial vote on the path to independence. Calling it fake doesn’t make it so.

Finally, former NDP MP Charlie Angus spent the day claiming Alberta’s independence movement is driven by foreign actors and offshore bot farms. The problem? Alberta Public Safety Minister Mike Ellis told the Legislature that after reviewing the allegations, the RCMP found no credible evidence of foreign interference whatsoever. Angus made the accusation. The RCMP went looking. They found nothing.

Let’s set the record straight.

The Alberta Fact Check Team